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# brainless

«brainless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Stupid; not thinking at all** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (brainless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, rude) Stupid; not thinking at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/#m1)

2) Having no brain, as in some simple animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday speech, «brainless» is an insult. In science, jellyfish and sponges have no brain, so they are brainless animals, yet they still survive. In stories, a brainless plan is a silly one.

### examples

- That was a brainless thing to do! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/#x1)
- Jellyfish are brainless but they can still sting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/#x2)
- The scarecrow thought he was brainless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/#x3)
- Don't be brainless – put your helmet on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/#x4)
- The film was fun but brainless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/#x5)

### note

Calling a person brainless is unkind. A sponge truly has no brain; a jellyfish has a nerve net instead.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brainless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.